Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa 2015

Since we had no submissions in the category Best media/video documenting a heritage site (national) prize it was decided to award this prize in the form of a third prize place instead.

Best Photographic Submission in the Western Cape: Huguenot.jpg by Leanri van Heerden

Best use on of WLM submissions on Wikipedia: Moltenodam (Af.Wikipedia) by LiebeB

Best use of WLM content to document heritages sites in the Western Cape on Wikipedia: Auwal Mosque by Knyzna1

The award ceremony will take place at 6pm on Saturday the 28th November 2015 at TwentyFifty, 2nd Floor, 8 Spin Street, Cape Town. Congratulations to our winners!

This year 424 photographs were submitted to Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa by 40 participants. We would like to thank each of the participants that submitted photographs in the 2015 competition. Although this is the last Wiki Loves Monuments competition in South Africa for the foreseeable future we are planning to have another Wiki Loves competition focusing on a different topic in 2016.

You can view all of the photographs submitted during Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa 2015 on Wikimedia Commons here.

You can view all of the photographs submitted globally during 2015 on Wikimedia Commons here.

International competition

This year a grand total of 242,344 photographs were submitted by 7,498 participants from all over the world totalling 1,287.9 gigabytes of submitted pictures. This is a decrease from last year's 369,589 photographs that were submitted globally in 2013 submitted by 11,943.

The 3614 national heritage estates in South Africa are categorized into three grades:

Grade I:

Heritage resources with qualities so exceptional that they are of special national significance. There are 18 sites in this category.

Grade II:

Heritage resources which, although forming part of the national estate, can be considered to have special qualities which make them significant within the context of a province or a region. There are 3019 sites in this category, of which 1500 sites are unmapped.

Grade III:

Other heritage resources worthy of conservation. There are 39,145 sites in this category, all of them unmapped.

This competition will target photographing, uploading and categorizing grade I and II monuments. Read more on Commons…

A list of grade I through to grade II monuments in your province and their respective SAHRA ID can be foundhere.

Suggested monuments

Below is a list of some suggested monuments for participants to photograph of both listed and unlisted locations. As always participants are encouraged to photograph widely as they like and also consider photographing other listed and unlisted locations.

Suggested listed monuments

These locations are all listed grade I and II monuments in South Africa. You can see a list of other monuments nearby by clicking on their respective links.

Suggested unlisted monuments

Unfortunately a number of the suggested unlisted monuments we had recommended previously might be subject to Freedom of Panorama issues. We have therefore asked that pictures of monuments that were built recently not be submitted. We are sorry for the confusion.

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